The Interview

alright so on wednesday elder packer from the quorum of the seventy (elder packer from the 12's son) and his wife came to our zone conference. Before the meeting started Elder allred one of the assistants told me to come out in to the hall, myself along with some other missionaries. we were told that we get to be interviewed by elder packer, President Robbins said that he had prayerfully selected some missionaries to be interviewed. while i was waiting i talked with sister packer, they live down off highland drive near willowcreek i think. she went to skyline and he went to hillcrest. when it was my turn to be interviewed he asked me what things i would change in the mission and things like that then he asked me if i had any questions for him. it was pretty cool being able to do that but i wish i could have talked with him for longer, i was probably only with him for 5 minutes. anyway, the talk he gave about football in conference was a game he played against skyline his junior year( hillcrest won).
i'm glad that grandpa is doing better, im looking forward to the byu game this weekend but i was a little upset to hear that byu is playing florida state in provo...i liked watching them play when i was younger, they have an indian ride out on the field on a horse before the games with a spear that's on fire...its pretty legit. anyway, i expect a full report on how the game went with OU.
hope everything is going well
love elder taylor call

Baptism!

Questions

mom
i just resent my email i sent last week so hopefully you got it. what does the (SP) mean that you wrote when you were talking about the temple? what else has been going on with grandpa? was he in the icu because of his back or his lungs? who all was at the hospital when you were there?
why is nin going to be in slc next week? which hospital is he at? well i guess this is going to be a short one since you didn't have any questions for me. hope everything is going well
love elder call

A Pretty Good Week

hi everyone
this past week was pretty good, on friday or saturday night we went over to this part members home to ask them about their neighbor who is a member, the member wasn't home but we talked to the husband who is really cool and he told us about them then we helped him put together this dog blower thing, his wife is a dog groomer then he was like just stay around for a while and he made us grilled terayaki steak and pineapple on the grill and we talked for a long time about the church and porter rockwell. on saturday night we had to goto the store to buy papertowells before we went in and in the parking lot this guy was staring at us and elder james asked him if we could help him with anything and we told him we were mormons then he said he was too and they just moved here from pennslyvaina and he was baptized about a year ago and his wife was taking the lessons before they moved so they live in our ward but we're not sure where. then last night we went over to some members homes to ask them where their neighbor lived that they had talked about the gospel with and when we were there they had some other non member friends there so we were able to teach them and they were really interested. so it has been a pretty good last couple of days.
also on friday when the member got home she was showing us pictures then elder james showed her his sisters blog then i was like i think my sister has a blog so we went on that and she thinks the main picture of owen was really cute and we watched the video of him on the boats at lagoon then i went on "my" blog which was pretty much a blank page with something talking about a black hole? that picture of owen with the kitty was cute too, we'll have to teach him what we do to full size cats when he gets older.
hope everything is going well
love
elder taylor call

Resent on 8/24

mommm
i do not know elder bready, i haven't heard of him either....
i have met matt a few times when i was over in adams county. he would always go to district meeting with us and things like that. he's a pretty good kid.
what are the kids in our ward up to? when i got to transfer meeting last week i got a package from the young women in the ward with a bunch of stuff in it and on like friday or saturday i got a letter from casey lawrence with the ward newsletters in it. can you get me the drapers address so i can write and thank them for the package. did doug lose his job? why is he starting a new one?
things in hebron are pretty good, it is a pretty diverse area, some places its pretty country and in others are verryyyy nice houses with community pools and things like that.
thanks for everything
love elder taylor call

Kentucky

hi everyone hope everything is going well, i was just writing to let you know that i got transfered to a place called hebron kentucky, it is pretty much a whole new world than georgetown. it seems to have a lot of city but im not sure cause i've only been here for about an hour, the library here is probably bigger than the court house in georgetown. well anyway my new address is
1736 tanglewood ct. #2
burlington, ky 41005
also tell the young women thank you for the package, im not sure how long it had been sitting at the mission office but i got it this morning. the parvinos baptism went really well, president robbins was there, he brought elder lundstrom with him which was very unexpected since elder lundstrom and myself had both called president robbins asking him if elder lundstrom could come and he said no both times but there he was when we pulled up. everything thing else is going pretty good, my companion, elder james is from logan and went to mountain crest but yea thats about all for today, hope everything is going well.
love yous
elder taylor call

Transfer Time

im getting transfered so i'll email you tomorrow or wednesday

Answers to Prayers

dear family-
alright well like much of you know, we have been working with the parvino family since march 11. this past thursday night i recieved a phone call from g. parvino, the following is a true account as told in her words," Last night (wednesday) d. and i had been reading from the scriptures and i was looking over the 21 points of the true church paper that you had given me, well it was getting time to goto bed so i went into the bed room and sat on the bed and i was thinking to myself when will i know when the time is right for me to be baptized, as soon as i had thought this a voice came into my head using words that i would never say "tarry not." it kind of scared me a little because these are words i would never say and it is about only the 4th time in my life something like this has happened." that is the main jist of the conversation we had so i asked her when she wanted to be baptized and she said, "as soon as possible" so g. and d. are being baptized on friday night. i am so grateful for answers to prayers and knowing that if we pray in faith, we will recieve an answer.
hope everything is going well, thanks for praying for my/ our investigators.
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